Terrible Relationship Lessons Movies Are Teaching

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You've seen it in a million films: an insecure, socially awkward, unambitious loser somehow makes a beautiful woman fall in love with him. Suddenly cloning dinosaurs becomes a plausible real life idea.

In this video essay, you'll see how "Knocked Up", "The Forty Year Old Virgin", "The Five-Year Engagement" (basically everything with the name Judd Apatow) all carry the trope. So do "Notting Hill", "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (Hugh Grant was a trope champion), "Can't Hardly Wait", "I Love You, Beth Cooper" and all those "American Pie" spin-offs I didn't watch by my own free will, of course. Boys keep getting taught that love is all they need to conquer the heart of any model-level female.

Besides that fantasy, Hollywood insists that men are responsible for every single problem in the relationship. You'll see it in "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "Crash Pad". Even in Billy Wilder's 1960 masterpiece "The Apartment".

As an antidote to this madness, make sure to watch the classics, when men were manly and relationships were win-win affairs (not in that meaning of "affair", ideally).

See here how Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Melvyn Douglas and Walter Huston teach men how to act during the good and the bad times of relationships.

00:00 Terrible Lesson #1
04:30 The Five-Year Engagement
05:26 How men should be
05:58 Cary Grant
06:43 Hugh Grant
07:33 Cantinflas in Pepe
09:17 Terrible Lesson #2
09:33 The Apartment
12:56 Crazy, Stupid, Love.
14:20 Crash Pad
15:47 Recovering my sanity (Dodsworth interlude)
16:08 The Classics (Casablanca, Gone with the Wind et al.)

By the way, be like Gable.

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